“I did not handle this situation well from top to bottom, and that is why I have been completely roasted on this app,” said Rep. Jeff Jackson, who posted an explanation of his vote to ban TikTok on TikTok.
He tried to clear up his vote by explaining he thinks a ban is unlikely, but some commenters are still livid.
First there was the Joe Biden robocall, where a deepfake of the president’s voice told New Hampshire voters to stay home during the primary. Now election officials worry they, too, will be impersonated during this election cycle.
“It has the potential to do a lot of damage,” Arizona’s secretary of state, who tested out a deepfake of himself last year, told Politico.
The FBI and DHS are on the hunt for “domestic extremist content” in the gaming community, The Intercept reports.
According to a Government Accountability Office report, DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis meets regularly with companies, including Roblox, Discord, and Reddit, to get information about “online activities promoting domestic violent extremism.” Maybe keep that in mind next time you say you’re doing something illegal “in Minecraft.”
[The Intercept]
